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26 May 2024, Galvanizing political leadership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

29 May 2024, Invest in What Matters: Making the Case for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescent Health and Well-Being

The 77th World Health Assembly (#WHA77) will take place from the 27 May to 1 June 2024 in Geneva, Switzerland. As the health community meets at WHA77, PMNCH – the world’s largest alliance of more than 1,400 partners working on improving WCAH – is calling for political leaders and all stakeholders to urgently prioritize the health and rights of women, children and adolescents, and scale up policies, investments and services to address their needs for a healthy and prosperous future for all. Below is a list of resources to support PMNCH partners with evidence-based messages and key resources to advocate for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health at WHA77.

PMNCH has prepared a messaging brief for partners to join together in advocating with one voice for women, children and adolescents during this year’s World Health Assembly.

• PMNCH key advocacy messages to improve the health of women, children and adolescents
• Social media toolkit

Calling influencers everywhere: Amplify our messages on MNCH, AHWB, and SRHR with the help of the PMNCH social media toolkit, specially developed for WHA77.

Lives in the Balance - Opening event: Galvanizing political leadership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Sunday, 26 May 2024, 18:00-20:00, Vieux Bois

This event aims at uniting government leaders, experts and stakeholders from civil society and the private sector to reflect on the immediate opportunities, gaps and challenges in advancing political commitments for the SDG goals/targets for maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health, including through the WHA and other multilateral processes.

Lives in the Balance - Invest in What Matters: Making the Case for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescent Health and Well-Being, Sunday, 29 May 2024, 18:00-20:00, Fairmont Grand Hotel

This event aims at disseminating emerging evidence and findings and, discuss key opportunities for increasing investment in maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and well-being to accelerate progress towards the 2030 goals.

• Key Asks To Member States For The 77th World Health Assembly Draft MNCH Resolution
  The PMNCH CSO group following the WHA77 discussions on Agenda Item 11.7 on Acceleration towards the Sustainable Development Goal targets for maternal health and child mortality, have put together a list of key asks to Member States.
• Preventing maternal and child mortality: upcoming WHO resolution must galvanise action to tackle the unacceptable weight of preventable deaths
  PMNCH is in support of a Lancet Global Health commentary by Health Ministers of Federal Republic of Somalia (Dr. Ali Hajji Aden) and Ethiopia (Dr. Mekdes Daba), underlining the importance of the WHA77 Resolution on Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health. The commentary emphasizes the urgent need to scale up high-impact interventions to combat mortality. It stresses that successful implementation requires political will, unwavering commitment, and consistent investments. Accelerated action is deemed imperative, making this Resolution crucial. The commentary urges all stakeholders to support it.
• Six years to the SDG deadline: Six actions to reduce unacceptably high maternal, newborn and child deaths and stillbirths
  ENAP-EPMM and CSA, together with PMNCH, has developed a 2-page brief outlining critical actions necessary to accelerate progress for MNCH care. "Six actions to the SDG deadline" emphasizes the urgent need for accelerated action and investments in equitable coverage of effective interventions and quality care to achieve the global targets set within the SDGs and the Global Strategy for Women's, Children's, and Adolescents' Health (2016-2030).
• Technical Brochure on Child Survival Action
  The Child Survival Action initiative has developed a technical brochure that assesses progress towards the SDGs and key indicators related to child health. It calls for all stakeholders to work together to promote primary health care and build a world where all children can survive and thrive.
• Ready, Set, Influence: Join colleagues for post-WHA Dialogue and to build your team’s advocacy capacity - MNCH Digital Advocacy Hubs

Investing in Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health with spotlight on adolescent well-being, Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 18:00-20:00, Fairmont Hotel

• Adolescent Well-Being Investment Case PMNCH, in partnership with Victoria University and guided by an expert consultative group, has developed an Adolescent Well-being Investment case report. This report features a global modeling toolkit, consolidating the importance of investing in adolescent well-being. Covering economic benefits, human rights, and demographic trends, the report updates and broadens previous investment models to include health, nutrition, education, road traffic injuries, child marriage, and other pertinent areas, while also underlining the consequences of inaction.
  Download the 4-page brief
• PMNCH Advocacy Brief: Investing in women’s, children’s, and adolescents’ health (WCAH) for equitable and sustainable economic and societal progress
  Interventions that improve WCAH and well-being and address inequalities have a ripple effect on communities and economies throughout the life course and across generations, yet we continue to see too little progress in women's, children's and adolescents' health. PMNCH developed a new advocacy brief to emphasize the significant economic and societal returns on investments that can change the life trajectory of women, children and adolescents and reduce inequities within communities and societies. The brief draws on the most extensive review of economic and financial evaluations for WCAH interventions, highlighting the high returns on investment in these interventions and their immediate and intergenerational benefits for families and communities.
  Brief: Stay tuned for the launch on the 29 May 2024!
• Join us for post-WHA Dialogue on the Adolescent Heath and Well-Being Hub